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  2. Carnotaurus - Wikipedia

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    Bonaparte, 1985. Carnotaurus (/ ˌkɑːrnoʊˈtɔːrəs /; lit. 'meat bull') is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period, probably sometime between 72 and 69 million years ago. The only species is Carnotaurus sastrei. Known from a single well-preserved skeleton, it is one of the best-understood ...

  3. Carnosauria - Wikipedia

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    Carnosauria is an extinct group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.. While Carnosauria was historically considered largely synonymous with Allosauroidea, some recent studies have revived Carnosauria as clade including both Allosauroidea and Megalosauroidea (which is sometimes recovered as paraphyletic with respect to Allosauroidea), and thus ...

  4. Ceratosauria - Wikipedia

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    Ceratosauria derives its names from the type species, Ceratosaurus nasicornis, described by O.C. Marsh in 1884. A moderately large predator from the Late Jurassic, Ceratosaurus nasicornis, was the first ceratosaur to be discovered. Ceratosaurs are generally moderately large in size, with some exceptions like the larger Carnotaurus and the ...

  5. Mapusaurus - Wikipedia

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    Mapusaurus was a large theropod, but slightly smaller in size than its close relative Giganotosaurus, with the largest specimen measuring around 10.2–12.2 metres (33–40 ft) long and weighing up to 3–6 metric tons (3.3–6.6 short tons). [2][3][4][5] It has been determined that Mapusaurus was diagnosed on autapomorphies, or unique traits ...

  6. Brachyrostra - Wikipedia

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    Brachyrostra (meaning "short snouts") is a clade within the theropod dinosaur family Abelisauridae. It includes the famous genera Carnotaurus, Abelisaurus, Aucasaurus as well as their close relatives from the Cretaceous Period of Argentina and Brazil plus Caletodraco from France [1]. The group was first proposed in an analysis conducted by Juan ...

  7. Sinoceratops - Wikipedia

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    Size comparison. Sinoceratops was a large ceratopsian, with an estimated length of 5 metres (16 ft) and body mass of 2 tonnes (2.0 long tons; 2.2 short tons). [5] It has a short, hooked horn on its nose (called a nasal horn), no horns above its eyes (brow horns), and a short neck frill with a series of forward-curving hornlets that gave the frill a crown-like appearance.

  8. Aucasaurus - Wikipedia

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    Coria et al., 2002. Synonyms. Abelisaurus garridoi. (Coria et al., 2002) Paul, 2010. Aucasaurus is a genus of medium-sized abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from Argentina that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Santonian to Campanian stage) of the Anacleto Formation. [1] It was smaller than the related Carnotaurus, although more derived in some ...

  9. Ceratosaurus - Wikipedia

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    Ceratosaurus. Ceratosaurus / ˌsɛrətoʊˈsɔːrəs / (from Greek κέρας/κέρατος, keras/keratos meaning "horn" and σαῦρος sauros meaning "lizard") was a carnivorous theropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian ages). The genus was first described in 1884 by American paleontologist ...